A delicate fabric of bird song
Floats in the air,
The smell of wet wild earth
Is everywhere.
Red small leaves of the maple
Are clenched like a hand,
Like girls at their first communion
The pear trees stand.
Oh I must pass nothing by
Without loving it much,
The raindrop try with my lips,
The grass with my touch;
For how can I be sure
I shall see again
The world on the first of May
Shining after the rain?
—Sara Teasdale, “May Day”
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Artistic Sensitivity as a Spiritual Approach
to Knowing Life and the World
13 lectures, Dornach, Switzerland, January 9 – May 2, 1915
(CW 161)
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Consider how important it is to see in everyday life that with our ordinary reason and intellect, which is bound up with our nervous system, we are actually outside of what most interests us in normal physical experience. Because of this, we are actually strangers to ourselves in our thinking. But by working with spiritual science, we acquire a heart “outside of the body,” as we mentioned yesterday; and what we think will again be filled with inwardness and soul quality. Only in this way can we make use of the reasoning and understanding that are bound up with our physical body and thereby deeply connect ourselves with the spheres in which we actually practice our thinking. Through spiritual science, we will carry this out, and in the things that we think with our reasoning and our understanding we will become people of truth. And life needs people of truth. What shines from the sun of spiritual science grows together with us because we grow together with the beings of the upper hierarchies. We must become people of truth through spiritual science! Only then will our thinking become such that we do not use it like the lawyer who is capable of defending either side of an argument. We will become people of truth by becoming one with the spiritual truths. And insofar as we are able to find the possibility of grasping our will in the way that I have described today, we will find the path into the inner parts of things. Not by speaking as Schopenhauer did about the will in nature, but by living into things with our will, and intermingling our will forces with those that are in the thing itself.
Here we touch upon something that is sorely missing from our present moment: the loving act of immersing oneself in the essence of things. This is so sorely missing from the present. I would say that you really need to keep experiencing the bitterness of this; the fact that the practice of allowing one’s will to sink into the essence of things is so sorely missing.
—Rudolf Steiner, from a lecture given May 2, 1915, in Artistic Sensitivity as a Spiritual Approach to Knowing Life and the World (CW 161)
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